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PLAYING WITH MATCHES

Hannah Orenstein

Fresh, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny, Playing with Matches is the addictive story about dating in today's swipe-heavy society, and a young woman trying to find her own place in the world.
In the tradition of Good in Bed and The Assistants comes a funny and smart comedy about a young matchmaker balancing her messy personal life and the demands of her eccentric clients.

Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss.

Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. She sets up a TV exec who wanted kids five years ago, a forty-year-old baseball-loving virgin, and a consultant with a rigorous five-page checklist for her ideal match.

Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when Jonathan betrays her, she spirals out of control - and right into the arms of a writer with a charming Southern drawl, who she had previously set up with one of her clients. He's strictly off-limits, but with her relationship on the rocks, all bets are off.

Hannah Orenstein is a writer and editor in New York. She's the dating editor at Elite Daily. Previously, she was a writer at Seventeen.com. At twenty-one, she became the youngest matchmaker at an elite dating service. She was born and raised in Boston, studied journalism and history at NYU, and lives in Manhattan with her fat cat, Eloise.
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Published 2018-06-26 by Touchstone

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Published 2018-06-26 by Touchstone

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Delightful. A fun and relatable rom-com for the Tinder age. Get ready to swipe right!

Breezy and entertaining.

Hannah Orenstein is one of this generation's most essential voices on love. Everything her characters go through will stay with you for your twenties and beyond.

It's charming, funny, and probably all too relatable if you're facing the modern dating scene.

A laugh-out-loud work that singles, marrieds, suburbanites, and urbanites all will clamor for... With an ending twist that will hit readers like a splash of vodka and tonic in the face of their blind date, this novel is one to pack in your beach bag.

Millennials looking for their perfect beach read this summer need look no further than this delicious romp through the madness of dating in your twenties.

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If you grew up with Gossip Girl and you obsessed over Devil Wears Prada, this is the book for your life now! It's smart, fun, sexy, and deeply relatable for every badass babe!

A smart, feel-good rom com... Reading Playing with Matches will give you butterflies.

A hilarious look at dating - and swiping.

Playing With Matches is a fun, drama-filled behind-the-scenes look at the life and love of an elite NY matchmakerfrom a former insider who's lived to tell the burning tale.

Playing with Matches by Hannah Orenstein is Basically The Devil Wears Prada for Matchmaking - and You'll Fall in Love with It. Read more...